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...Last week this stock was valued at about $3,000 a share, when an announcement was made by Colonel Walker. Pondering plant expansion financed by a possible public offering of shares, President Walker proposed to split stock 250 for 1, change the name of the company to Talon, Inc. Zip, the price of shares was bid up to $3,500, but there were no sales...
Four hundred uniformed young women tend the machines which sew and fill sacks of granulated sugar, fold and fill boxes of lump sugar in a factory at Lille, France. Flitting fingers, fixed eyes, bent heads heed every zip, snip, swish, zoop, bupp, bopp of the machines-60 seconds every minute, 60 minutes every hour, 40 hours every week...
...readers who remember such zip-past-the-window milestones as prize novels, it may seem only yesterday that Paul Morgan won a Harper $7,500 prize with his first published book. The Fault of Angels (TIME, Aug. 28, 1933), a lightly satirical story of the Rochester, N. Y. music colony. Actually Author Horgan has since then written three others. Last week his latest went zipping past the window. This time it was less like a milestone than a winged western sandwich with the lifegiving onion omitted...
...which is never called anything but an "M. G.,"† is the supreme British bantam sport car and some of the firm's business is in supplying custom-made chassis to road-racing Britons who like to zip and roar. A minuscule M. G. has recently done 140 m.p.h. under test conditions in Germany. Those offered in Manhattan are a super-doodlebug at $1,435, promised to do 83 m.p.h., and a species of semi-sport sedan at $2,550 brought out this year in England for the first time...
When Governor Landon left Topeka fortnight ago, his journalist-advisers were considerably worried because the preliminary drafts of the speeches he was to deliver contained so little of the political zip and zing that make helpful headlines. The G.O.P. nominee argued that the East did not know him, that he was going to introduce himself first by a discussion of general principles and not deal with specific campaign issues until later. His West Middlesex speech was, in fact, so fundamental that the Democratic high command did not bother to controvert its generalities. At Chautauqua Governor Landon discussed Education...